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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I thank the Chairman and ask the witnesses to forgive me absence. I was attending another committee meeting. I read the documentation circulated by IBEC and I will focus on two or three areas. I have been interested in apprenticeships for some time. If I recall correctly, IBEC was not at the forefront of the previous iteration of proposals on apprenticeship. However, I remember reading a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Google did not show that. It did not appear.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Please do.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I was making a note to myself there to follow up on an aspect of it. Deputy Brophy and I are not party colleagues but we were colleagues on South Dublin County Council and both of us now represent the same constituency. My sense was that public bodies, State companies, semi-State companies and local authorities have been slow on the bidding part, yet in 20 seconds one can think of scores of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. O'Brien but the biggest challenge right now - it was in the newspapers recently - is health and travel insurance for international students who come here. Instead of costing a token €100 per year, they want international students to take out the same kind of private health insurance that any of us would have. This is despite the fact that, in most cases,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Macroeconomic Outlook: IBEC (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Is Mr. Brady talking about isolationism and protectionism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Deputy Thomas Pringle asked Mr. Millican specifically how the company identified a leak in an individual property through district metering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: It is all questions this week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I would love to say much more. I thank the witnesses for attending. I hope that they at least get a night out of this and are not flying back immediately. Wales and Scotland were cited to us in advance of the introduction of water metering. Were either of the companies approached by Irish Water or any of the semi-States connected with it in advance of Irish Water's roll-out to seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: What about in advance of Irish Water's establishment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: From when to when?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: About 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: What about Welsh Water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: We are grateful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Welsh Water's not-for-profit model would appear to be one that wins with the public. I am surprised that Scottish Water was approached when Welsh Water was not. Mr. Jones might be able to confirm to the committee at another time whether there was no contact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I have questions relating to EU directives. Does the inclusion of water charges in Scotland's local property tax meet the EU directive's polluter pays principle, the EU water directives and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: I thank Mr. Millican. Does Scottish Water charge for its septic tank emptying service? Mr. Millican mentioned that it used private contractors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Mr. Millican does not need to get too technical on my next question, but where does all this go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: When the septic tanks have been emptied, how is the material disposed of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: Ireland has group and private water schemes, particularly in rural areas. However, what I seem to be getting from both CEOs is that Welsh Water and Scottish Water look after the provision of domestic water to every home in their respective countries.